Utah's annual count of homeless men, women and
children got underway before daylight Thursday.
Last year's federally required Point in Time
Count determined that more than 15,000 people
in Utah experienced homelessness at some point
in 2013.

Online surveys are a fast, easy way for
marketers to gather consumer information. The
same holds true for scammers. They're promising
free gaming systems through Facebook and other
websites if users fill out a survey.

In its most comprehensive look at the cancers that most commonly affect youths, the American Cancer Society said in a report Friday that childhood cases continues to increase, but death rates have fallen .

The Utah Jazz have had some great moments since moving to Salt
Lake City from New Orleans. Whether it's the decades of dominance
with John Stockton and Karl Malone or the hard-nosed coaching style
of Jerry Sloan, the Jazz have had a place in all our

The 2012-13 season was a special one for the Lone Peak basketball
team. They ran opponents off the floor, gained widespread media
attention and won a national championship. But the Knights will be
the first to say there is more to life than hoops.

Salt Lake City offers a plethora of great things to do and see. There are
many ways to spend a day in SLC, but if you get the chance to visit
during the winter season, I suggest giving a few of these things a try...

Those efforts to fight obesity in schools? Think younger. A new study finds that much of a child's "weight fate" is set by age 5, and that nearly half of kids who became obese by the eighth grade were already overweight when they started kindergarten.

A semitruck lost control and tipped over on I-15 Friday morning on
the downside of the Black Ridge between Cedar City and St. George,
causing a vehicle driven by a pregnant woman to crash into the
semitruck.

President Barack Obama's new declaration that he's open to legalizing many immigrants short of citizenship sounds a lot like House Speaker John Boehner and other GOP leaders, an election-year compromise that numerous Republicans as well as Democrats crave.

The Utah Department of Public Safety has a new vehicle it hopes will
keep
officers and the public safe from shootings. It's called a mine-
resistant,
ambush-protected vehicle, but it will have a different purpose in Utah.

For the past decade, millions of Americans have
passed on the biggest football game of the year
to watch something way cuter. By now it's an
established fact: Television doesn't get much
more adorable than puppies.

The Duchesne Talons will go for their 11th
straight state drill team
title Saturday at Utah Valley University. If
they win, the Talons will set a
state record for most consecutive drill team
championships.

When freezing temperatures and endless snowstorms threatened to keep one family inside for months on end, they decided to build themselves a place to chill outside. All it took was some aluminum tins and a whole lot of food coloring.

The State of Utah's Division of Consumer
Protection is investigating claims about
locksmith pricing practices and address
listings that may lead consumers to believe
they're dialing a local locksmith company.

Law enforcement officers in all local
communities can relate to the
deadly risks that come with the job. It's one
of the greatest risks they
take: not knowing what awaits on the other side
of the window.

A cruise ship that had more than 180 passengers and crew fall sick with an apparent stomach virus returned to a Houston-area port early due to a dense fog advisory and not because people were vomiting and had diarrhea, a Princess Cruises spokeswoman said Friday.